The Clubhouse housed an excellent
cookhouse, ice-cream parlor, dance hall and movie theater. Next
door was the filling station. It was located at the same site the
present Chevron station is. But the old wooden structure also included
a hardware store with bins of nails, pipe fittings, etc.

Adjacent to the gas station
was the butcher shop. It sat even closer to Highway 89 than the
grocery store. The butcher shop featured saw dust floors along
with its home-grown beef. Steve Harding's Graeagle Store was known
as the Company Commissary. Originally this building had a large
two-storied community hall in the rear. This building housed the first
dance hall and a small back room known as the "Snake Room".
This room was where loggers and mill workers met after work to
share a keg of beer. There was a box near the door marked "Kitty",
and everyone contributed to buy the beer.

One side of the existing
grocery store housed the bookkeeping portion of the Graeagle Lumber
Company. The payroll was disbursed from here also. In 1922 a fire
destroyed the two-story portion of this building. It was later
ascertained that one of the time keepers had started the blaze
to cover up shortages in the payroll. He subsequently served several
years in jail. On the opposite side of the store was the post office.
Mrs. Conant ran it until she retired. The post office was then
moved into the store, and the former post office building was moved
across the street.

Directly across from the
store was the "potato shed". This structure was dug into
the bank, and remained cool both winter and summer. The "potato
shed" was the favorite spot for all the youngsters in the
winter time. It made the best sled run in town. In this same area,
along Gray Eagle Creek, were two large three story bunk houses.
These housed the single men. One burned to the ground early in
the morning of the 60's. . . the other was torn down by Tom Maher
of Gold Lake, and is now the Gold Lake Store and portions of the
outdoor plumbing facilities located around the campground.

If you've ever wondered
why the maintenance shop is so large and tall, it's because it
was built to accommodate locomotives. The railroad tracks ran in
one door and out the other. They could take care of nearly any
repairs needed. The old forge is intact, and still being used today.
The NC0 Railroad terminated near the rear of the maintenance shop.
It also had a large blacksmith shop.

Before it became a golf
course, Graeagle Meadows was a vast swamp and peat bog. In fact,
there is the story the old-timers used to tell of a man, horse
and wagon disappearing in the area of number one fairway. The eerie
portion of this tale is that while the golf course was under construction,
a backhoe operator unearthed an old wagon tongue. Eight large springs
had to be tapped in order to permit construction. The peat was
dug up, pulverized and used as dressing on the course.